RNZ: The Macmillan Brown Lectures - Seite 2 
Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2006
Island culture and urban life: the span of contemporary Pacific art. "As it happens, I am not an expert in contemporary Pacific art, but I have played a role in supporting and promoting it." In this lecture Jonathan Mane-Wheoki considers the rise of Pacific art from the tentative entry of pioneer Pacific painters such as Paul Tangata and Teuane Tibbo into the mainstream of New Zealand art in the 'sixties to the advent of the "big three" - Fatu Feu'u, Michel Tuffery and John Pule, the first Macmillan Brown Pacific Artists in Residence - in the 'nineties. The way in which these artists have been excluded from, than then included in the history of New Zealand art is discussed. Recorded at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
'A whirlpool of impure vocalisation': attitudes to New Zealand English. When the New Zealand accent was first noticed it was roundly condemned. Critics said it was the product of poor homes and laziness. It was seen as a wretched Cockney import from the slums of London. In this lecture Elizabeth Gordon will examine the early attitudes to New Zealand English and the view of language which gave rise to them. She will discuss the roles of standard and non-standard English in New Zealand and consider the underlying reasons for complaints about some varieties of New Zealand English today.
Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2005
'Afghans' and 'cheerios', 'kiwi' and 'iwi': the words we use. The beginnings of New Zealand English go back to the time when Captain Cook borrowed Maori words into English. In this lecture Elizabeth Gordon will discuss the processes whereby the English language was adapted to New Zealand conditions. She will consider the borrowing of Maori words into English in the period up to 1860 and the period after 1970 and discuss the question of Maori code-switching in English writing today. Some writers have suggested that New Zealand English will lose its distinctiveness in the face of globalisation. Will our New Zealand words survive?
Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2005
The New Zealand accent was first noticed around 1900 when it was called a 'colonial twang'. Recordings of old New Zealanders collected in the 1940's by the New Zealand National Broadcasting Service have enabled researchers at the University of Canterbury to study the speech of men and women who were among the first English speaking children born in New Zealand. This work has shown that the accent was formed between 1850 and 1880. In this lecture Elizabeth Gordon will consider some of the explanations for the origins of the New Zealand accent. Using examples from the early recordings she will describe some of the research findings on how our variety of English evolved.
1999 - Glynn Christian's Fragile Paradise
Glynn Christian, the great-great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian talks to Brian Edwards about his family heritage and the story behind a mutiny on Bounty on 28 April 1789